According to my boss, right after a Microchip seminar which we
     attended together, it stands for Power Integrated Circuit, in
     reference to the relatively high power levels that these chips could
     drive directly.


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Subject: What does PIC stand for?
Author:  tim.kerby@UKONLINE.CO.UK at internet
Date:    1/8/97 3:28 PM


I have heard it as peripheral and also as programmable interface controller.
Microchip don't know when I phoned to ask.  Can you help?

Thanks
        Tim